The rise of cloud is creating security blindspots
Businesses are growing increasingly reliant on Amazon Web Services (AWS), but with all the good, businesses must also face the bad. This is according to a new report from threat detection and response company Vectra AI, which says that the rise of cloud means greater complexity and more security blind spots. Basing its conclusions on a poll of 317 IT …
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The cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market continues to boom
The cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market has enjoyed another quarter of strong growth, as businesses continue to migrate their workflows and build more cloud-native applications. This is according to a new report from analyst firm Canalys, which states that spending rose 36 percent for the quarter, hitting $47 billion. The same report asserts that expenditure was $5 billion higher than in …
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Cloud storage vs local storage: What’s best for businesses?
In the last decade, cloud storage has become incredibly popular in business circles. Typically backed by a suite of powerful features, including cloud-based apps, disaster recovery, and file syncing, the best cloud storage services make business more efficient. But there are businesses that swear by local storage, pointing to speed and security as their major concerns with cloud storage. In …
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The best cloud storage for photos: free and paid
With the arrival of the smartphone camera, photos have become the primary medium for documenting our day-to-day lives, as well as our most precious moments. Now, we take pictures almost all the time—be it for family albums or social media. The challenge, however, is how to securely store all these photos. For that, we need a platform that’s safe as …
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Benefits of cloud website hosting
Cloud web hosting is no more considered a futuristic technology, as it is now becoming a very serious alternative to conventional servers and turning out to be a cost-effective storage solution, which is not just flexible, and reliable, but also scalable at the same time! While there are issues like privacy concerns with the technology, there are a large number …
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Google Cloud doubles down on EU commitment
After the EU invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework and upheld the validity of the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) last month, the European Data Protection Board published its final recommendations on additional measures. Google saw this as an opportunity to once again explain how it protects EU citizens’ data that resides in its cloud, as well as how it …
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Cloud is set to boost UK SMEs across the board
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the UK are currently in the post-pandemic recovery phase, and believe cloud technologies could be a major enabler. These are the conclusions of a new report from software firm Epicor, based on a poll of 1,250 decision-makers in the UK and the US, which states that almost three-quarters (73 percent) expect their business to …
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Global cloud market continues to boom
The global cloud market continues to boom as spending rises beyond on-prem infrastructure, new figures from analyst firm IDC suggest. According to the report, businesses spent $15.1 billion on cloud infrastructure in the first quarter of 2021, up 12.5 percent compared to the same period last year. On-prem infrastructure also recorded growth in the same timeframe, but only of 6.3 …
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Businesses ready to put their full faith in cloud security
Whatever skepticism towards cloud-based security IT leaders may have felt in the past, it all seems to be water under the bridge now as businesses everywhere embrace the new technology. This is according to a new report from Google, based on a poll of 2,000 global IT leaders, which claims confidence in the security of cloud infrastructure is now “extremely …
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Many businesses are yet to reap the full benefits of the cloud
The adoption of cloud-native technologies is on the rise, but many businesses still haven’t achieved full-scale adoption, a new report from Ubuntu publisher Canonical suggests. Polling more than 1,200 IT professionals on their use of cloud-native technologies, Canonical found that almost half (45.6 percent) use Kubernetes in production. However, just 15.7 percent use it exclusively. Almost a third (30 percent) …
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